Hardball
Hardball
TV ShowEnded

Hardball

When they play, they play for keeps.

7.0 / 10
1989
1 season
18 episodes
CrimeAction & Adventure

Battles is a 45-year-old hard-nosed veteran cop who is forced to take a desk job or retire. Battles is soon assigned a new partner, the 25-year old hotshot Kaczierowski who follows his own set of rules when dealing with criminals. The pair are soon at odds over their respective methods of law enforcement. HARDBALL is an American crime drama television series that ran on NBC during the 1989-1990 television schedule.

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  • Ep 1

    1.Till Death Do Us Part

    21-09-198960m

    Charlie faces a desk job but gets a reprieve, he is teamed with a new young partner and despite their differences must protect a witness, a mobster's wife, whom Charlie knows too w...

  • Ep 2

    2.The Silver Scream

    28-09-198960m

    Charlie and Kaz work as technical advisors on a film and wind up protecting the star, an actress whose attacker has just recently been paroled.

  • Ep 3

    3.The One Armed Bandit

    13-10-198960m

    Charlie and Kaz are in Las Vegas visiting Charlie's friend who owns a casino-hotel. Kaz's discovery of the bullet-ridden corpse of a pickpocket, followed by gunfire in the showroom...

  • Ep 4

    4.Which Witch is Which?

    27-10-198960m

    Charlie is a having a string of bad ""coincidences."" A witch in a retirement home says that one of nurses there will be the next in a series of kidnap-murders. When Kaz and Charli...

  • Ep 5

    5.The Cleveland Indian

    03-11-198960m

    A Native American is in search of his great-grandson who's spent time in an institution other than the one wrote about. The great-grandson is also wanted by his friends from the ba...

  • Ep 6

    6.The Fighting 52nd

    10-11-198960m

    Charlie, the ""Rainmaster,"" attends the reunion of his old Vietnam Army unit; however one of the members is murdered. The man wanted to talk to Charlie about something before the...

  • Ep 7

    7.Time Bomb

    17-11-198960m

    Two men are killed. 30 years ago in college they were part of a group which was charged for the death of a fellow student in a test of courage. Charlie and Kaz want to protect the...

  • Ep 8

    8.Trying to Make a Living, and Doing the Best I Can

    24-11-198960m

    The little crook Sonny mistakenly steals the case of a professional killer. Now he is chased by that man and when he stumbles and the case with a gun opens, Sonny gets arrested. Ch...

  • Ep 9

    9.The Out of Towner

    01-12-198960m

    G.P. Svetlo, a rude detective from Louisiana, is in town searching for his lost daughter. During a raid he and his daughter are arrested. Kaz soon realizes that this man is highly...

  • Ep 10

    10.The Cool Katt

    20-04-199060m

    An older cop is shot in a bank, but the case and everything about it is made non-existent. Charlie begins to think about retiring or moving to that desk job. The perpetrator is coc...

  • Ep 11

    11.The Angel of Death

    27-04-199060m

    A reporter who was on the scene of the murder of a homeless man minutes after it happened is terrorized by the caller who gave her the tip about the murder.

  • Ep 12

    12.A Killer Date

    04-05-199060m

    Kaz gets Charlie a lifetime membership to a computer dating company. Charlie gives it a shot, but winds up getting shot at on this first date and gets a warning to pass on his seco...

  • Ep 13

    13.A Death in the Family

    11-05-199060m

    It's Charlie's birthday and his daughter stops by wish him well, but the differences between them still run deep. She then becomes the victim of a wounded robber who vows revenge a...

  • Ep 14

    14.Sex, Cops, and Videotape (a.k.a. From the Commissioner, With Love)

    18-05-199060m

    Charlie and Kaz get assigned to a delicate case: the murder of the commissioner's mistress. The commissioner has hired a killer to search for the videotape that shows him in a comp...

  • Ep 15

    15.Wedding Bell Blues

    01-06-199060m

    Kaz's mother comes to town and surprises her by announcing she is getting remarried. While meeting her fiancé they are hailed by a barrage of bullets. Kaz has a hard time dealing...

  • Ep 16

    16.Prescription For Murder (a.k.a. Charlie and Kaz Meet the Mummy)

    08-06-199060m

    While Charlie is in the hospital, he is mistaken for a hitman's target. Kaz inadvertently blocks Charlie's shot at the would-be killer while in pursuit. They wind up sharing a room...

  • Ep 17

    17.Every Dog Has Its Day

    22-06-199060m

    A retarded friend of Charlie's says a dog asked him to get the police to stop his murder. When Charlie and Kaz arrive at the scene shots are fired.

  • Ep 18

    18.The Hunt for Honus Wagner

    29-06-199060m

    Kaz's bike and a valuable baseball card are stolen and lead into a different type of ball game managed by a player who could have Charlie legally tossed out.

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